My dad is a hunter. We have a cabin in the Appalachian mountains in Pennsylvania. Me and my dad have been able to bond talking about Alveus and the animals. I’ve showed him pictures from the twitter and Maya’s stream before. He really likes Stompy and the Donks.
These are some of his “highlights” from his trail cam!
Been taking some pictures of critters I find around my backyard. Not sure what species the two little baby frogs are. I’m also not sure what kind of moth(?) that leaf-looking one is, I’ve only seen that kind twice before. Thought they were all adorable and decided to share.
Hi! I know songbirds are adequately loved, but I wanted to share some pictures of an Indigo Bunting (my favorite). I had never seen one prior to this but I used my favorite bird app (Merlin by Cornell’s Ornithology lab #NotAnAd) to learn its call so I could find one if I ever heard one while out and about. Got super excited when I heard the call and had to get my camera!
Hi!
Being inspired by the keeping streams and the Conservation Uncharted episodes I picked up a few big bags of mixed seeds, nuts, and some feeding stations right before winter hit here in the Baltic Sea so grandma’s feathery little friends could have some easy access to food!
We hung some smaller feeding stations in the front yard, seen in the first few pictures with the Eurasian blue tits as well as some larger feeding stations and tallow balls in the lilac bushes on the other side of the house. We had to separate them as the Eurasian jays and common blackbirds that live around her house are bullies and don’t let the smol ones eat..
Bonus map, for visual reference of “Eurasian” 🙂
Hello! I’ve been getting more into wildlife photography lately and have been spending a majority of my free time out in the woods trying to capture any and all wildlife I come across. I’ve been tracking these guys for a few weeks now, making sure not to disturb them. It’s been really neat observing their behavior!
Every time I take my rats out to pee, this bird in the house me and my kids put together looks at me like it wants to kill me. Attached are the rats in question, and my daughters first ride for added cuteness.
there was no cool insects in my kitchen this week but we do have a mouse hiding under our dishwasher. I haven’t seen him yet so i took some creative liberty. if anyone has a mouse or rat problem DO NOT use glue traps, they are a fucked up and very inhumane way to get rid of them so DO NOT use them RAGEY >:(
Long time listener, first time caller…umm tf is this? 🙂
I found it in my back yard (in California Valley).
I reversed image searched it and it could be a red spider?? Assassin Bug??? Zelus longipes?? but those don’t have spikes on their butts like this one does so idk…
Found a strange little dude in my garden and it’s a crusader bug (Mictis profana) he has a cool pattern on his back but he smells bad
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mictis_profana
i tried to get more photos but he ran away sadge
Hi Maya, I’m a wildlife photographer based in Sweden who has become more and more invested in conservation and environmental areas as time goes on when spending time with animals and seeing their habitats and behaviors.
Your stream has been a big inspiration!
I thought I’d share an image series of some Long-eared owls I found and their nesting before they became independent later on and split up.
Saw these Magpies bullying a cat, they were obviously trolling with it, funny thing to see, magpies are quite smart it seems
Hello! I grew up feeding the birds with my grandpa im Illinois. I added a window feeder and its the best choice ive made! Ive been birdwatching in my yard in SW FL and love seeing all the different birds.
I live in Sweden? is that what biographical means? like countries.
here is a small video with mayas journey with animals on stream
Never quite understood why people liked birds so much but after watching the stream I started appreciating them more. Got a bird feeder and started taking pictures, the pictures aren’t that great but hopefully they’re alright. 🙂
All photos taken in southern sweden, tried my best to id what kind they are but not totally sure.
(Also a cute hare I saw in my neighborhood)
Highly recommend visiting the National Aviary in Pittsburgh if you ever had the chance. It has an immersive atmosphere, where some birds will walk up to you or fly by your head with no fear. Be careful though, in my last visit I saw a person get pooped on! They even have a sloth in the rainforest exhibit, but he was hiding in the trees and did not see him.
Hi Maya, i wanted to ask a few questions about my snake. Firstly we feed her two mice because in the picture of her tail you can see this plump end and if we feed her rats it gets plumper. Do you know what this is? Secondly we feed her once a week and im starting to feel that thats too frequent, mostly cause noodle and patchy get once every two weeks. Is it bad for her to get hungry once a week? Thanks for answering and Cheers. (Also i know its bad to feed live but we unfortunately been doing it for too long we she doesn’t get eating it pre-dead)
This story is from 2017, I don´t have any remaining contact to the people within it.
Spend 2017 working on a portugese farm. Portugal was shaken by devestating wildfires. It was hot, But word was, it was arson by a cooperation trying to buy cheap land. Intrusive eucalyptus trees made things worse. Burning bark travels far, carried by wind.
Our area was struck too. The farm survived, but a neighboors self-sustaining farm housing over a hundret birds fully burned down. The absolute Chad managed to save every single bird, sacraficing everything else in the process! It was heartwarming to see the comunity come together to help him out after. Sadly no good pics, didn´t want to be that guy…
PNW, 29
Like most guys shopping at the grocery store, I never really cared much about what I was buying or the impact it had on the environment but, ever since the first ever Animal Quest (Chicken Edition) I’ve been buying certified humane eggs. It’s a super easy way to contribute. Everybody should do it. Since I started buying these in the summer of 2021, I’ve noticed more certified humane options showing up in stores around me. I’m hoping that’s a sign that more people are starting to catch on 🙂
Found a Northern Goshawk in my garden which had managed to hunt and kill a ringneck dove
(featuring the scene of the crime)
You can skip this post if you want, Maya. Just thought i would share it with the community in here
Went into my kitchen and saw this lil guy hanging out. Hes got cool colors and stuff idk. What is going through a moth’s mind when it flies into a car windshield?
Its abdomen.
I visited The Belize Zoo, a conservation center home to more than 200 animals of 45+ species, all native to Belize. I was surprised to see harpy eagles and a jaguarundi! You can see more pictures and videos in the imgur link below 🙂
Was cleaning out a lot of my images and came across some of these pictures of animals I’ve taken. First group are from a small zoo near me in CT with goats, cows, llamas and some other farm animals shot on Canon Sure-Shot 85 Zoom 35mm. The last group of pictures are from the Bronx Zoo that I took awhile ago and are shot on a Canon Rebel T6 🙂 and a bonus picture from Girls Trip. Hopefully get to take more images of animals in the future and I know I have a lot more from my travels in my other drives so ill post more when I find them.
Saw this really cool colored lizard on the way back from a road trip from Florida to Ohio. I believe this was somewhere in Georgia at a rest stop. I tried to look it up to find more information and believe it is an Agama agama (also called a red-headed rock agama). I have never seen one of these before but it sounded like they are an invasive species that originated from Africa.
There were also a bunch of squirrels that openly ate nuts from our hands but I did not take any pictures, unfortunately. 🙁
Hi Maya! This is my first post for Show and Tell, but I had to show off some of the animals I work with. I work at a small non-profit facility that focuses on education and local wildlife. All of our animals are non releasable due to injury/abandonment, etc. I just wanted to say I really appreciate the work you do to help spread the knowledge; and strategies to protect our wildlife. Keep up the great work!
In December, I went to Fletcher Moss Park. Here, they have a Botanical Garden, Parsonage Garden (which has a series of ornamental trees, lavender, and an alpine house), and is part of Stenner Woods Nature Reserve. Living in Manchester, England, there is nature all around. I am originally from Colorado, so I am used to going to the mountains, but I have never seen so many parks in one city. It was interesting to see what plants and trees they could grow here due to the interesting climate. Some seemed tropical and yet thriving in the endless rain.
I’ve volunteered with a marine animal rehab center for about 2 years. Pictured is me and a harbor seal weanling recently separated from her mother, who came to us with infected wounds (they were gnarly! But seals heal very fast). She was released last Monday!
Near the hook of MA, sea turtles moving south get stuck in our frigid water and wash ashore cold stunned. Pictured here is a kemp’s ridley sea turtle having a monitored swim time (once they get stronger they can have 24/7 swim time)
Remember! If you see an animal on the beach like a seal or sea turtle DO NOT approach them! Call your local rescue hotline to ensure the animals are not put further in distress!
Hello!!
Me and my boyfriend are avid watchers of your channel and we support what you do with alveus! Here are a few pictures of insects/animals we come across here in florida. I’ve also linked a video of a snake in the wild feeding on a frog:(. And also another video a type of hawk maybe? (btw i hope the videos linked correctly or else this would be embarrassing:/ )
https://share.icloud.com/photos/0b0D7jBapN8a5iIfeNuT_3Q3Q
Hi!!!! I rarely join stream but just thought I’d share more domestic animal stuff! I’ve been training dogs unprofessionally for about three years in high school and decided I wanted to become a certified trainer! Maya really helped me want to go to school just seeing how important it was to her. I absolutely love dogs and the dog industry. I know this page is more about wildlife but I cannot emphasize how important it is to buy and adopt your dogs and other pets responsibly, do your research!!! The photos are of me and my psa dog, Sett, doing some bitey things and of some of the dogs I’m working with. Thank you Maya for everything you do for the animal industry!
I haven’t seen birds of prey in my neighborhood ever, and this bird has been flying around for the past month or so. Very cool!
While on a walk with my boyfriend, we spotted this owl that had flown onto a street sign. Took a couple of pictures but not sure what kind of owl it is. It was cool to see it so close up, very pretty!
The little guy in the pics was being attacked by a roaming cat a few days ago and had been injured (toes on both back legs missing). Managed to get the cat away and wasn’t sure what to do with the frog, I read that you’re just meant to set it somewhere and hope for the best. But I learned quite quickly that it couldn’t climb anymore. We have a large tank so we set up a temporary home in there (plant, water tub, UV light, and we mist often to maintain humidity levels) Though I know it’s not perfect.
If you have any advise please do let me know, if it’s best to release I will do so. Just didn’t want the cat to get it again before it had a chance to recover.
We have dubbed the frog ‘Flynn’
I started out with a plastic window feeder and I got bluejays. After getting a bigger feeder along side it i started discovering more birds! Ive seen woodpeckers, mockingbirds, cardinals, bluejays, blackbirds, red-winged blackbird, and a new one I spotted today and need to look into what it is.
Thought I would show a little appreciation to everyone’s favorite frog 🙂
I started working at the Philadelphia Zoo in late September after being a member since 2014 and regularly visiting. I’m big into photography and I’ve easily taken over 5,000+ photos at the Philly Zoo alone, plus more at other zoos I’ve visited. I work in guest engagement so I don’t work with the animals but I hope one day I get to do that. Here are some photos of the animals 🙂
went into my kitchen and saw this lil guy hanging from the roof. asked chat what he was and they said he was a katydid so i guess thats what he is idk 🙂 had to move him outside before my dogs ate him :(… also katy did what?
On the date of January 24th, 2023, and the weeks prior, a rodent was witnessed on camera stealing hay from the pasture. Thanks to the work of our detectives we have managed to identify the perpetrator.
he is considered armed and dangerous.
I visited this zoo last year, and I loved it so much because of how much they push conservation education. They are also located right across from a school, which seems to take frequent field trips there, teaching the kids.
I love that they also have many species that you don’t often get to learn about in zoos (Bush dogs, screamers, peccaries, rhea etc.) Really regret not taking more pictures 🙁
I recently learned they also do some work in condor conservation!
Hey Maya, it’s the girl who painted your nut house mural. wazzup. Just wanted to contribute to the show n tell with this recent cool news of a mexican grey wolf spotted near the town where ill be going to school for my bio degree!
attached is a video about it below<3
Every couple of years, we go on a family vacation to St. Simon’s Island, GA. While there, we always make sure to visit the Georgia Sea Turtle Center on Jekyll Island. The center rescues and rehabilitates injured sea turtles while offering educational tours and exhibits to visitors. The last time we visited, the enrichment they had for the turtles in their tanks stuck out to me. I hadn’t thought much of it the first time I visited, but after watching Alveus streams, I understood the importance of enrichment for the turtles and noticed the usage of different items in their tanks.
If you’re ever in the area, I’d recommend stopping by to support their efforts! Get well soon, sea turtles. 🙂
I make videos on beatbox and like animals a lot (:
I recently went out with my mom’s ex one night to fly his Harris’s Hawk in downtown Portland… we used his sweet birb Devo to scare a bunch of crows down to the river. Apparently they need to fly around most nights or the crows get too comfortable and paint the sidewalks white.
https://www.kptv.com/2022/10/28/get-those-crows-out-here-downtown-portland-clean-safe-partners-with-bird-abatement-company-clear-crows/
Went to the zoo with my gf and saw so many cool animals!! The koala had a baby, the giraffes were swinging their necks at each other, and we saw Przewalski horses! They’re the last truly wild horses left. At some point there weren’t any left in the wild but they’re being reintroduced in some sites 🙂
I make videos on beatbox and like animals a lot (:
I recently went out with my mom’s ex one night to fly his Harris’s Hawk in downtown Portland… we used his sweet birb Devo to scare a bunch of crows down to the river. Apparently they need to fly around most nights or the crows get too comfortable and paint the sidewalks white.
https://www.kptv.com/2022/10/28/get-those-crows-out-here-downtown-portland-clean-safe-partners-with-bird-abatement-company-clear-crows/
Visited the Scottish Deer Centre on a super cool day here in Scotland. Very cool to see all the different species of deer. Pictures include sika, fallow, red and pere David’s deer. Plus wapiti deer which I think are called elk in NA but deer in the UK. Totally not confusing at all.
Hello Maya and Chat,
Im an employee at the Metro Richmond Zoo an just want to show you all the animals that I love. We do tons of conservation with cheetahs,diana monkeys,penguins,snow lepords,etc. At the zoo we have had 19 cheetahs born in 2022. We also have a new baby hippo just born on Dec 6 2022 she is doing great! This is the second pygmy hippo calf born at the zoo and in Virginia. If you would like to to read the story and vote on her name here are the links. If anyone wants to help with cheetah conservation or any other conservation you can donate or just support by checking out the website there are many articles you can read on there! https://metrorichmondzoo.com/donate/
Baby hippo links
https://metrorichmondzoo.com/baby-pygmy-hippo-born-december-6/
I went to Cheyenne Mountain Zoo this past Saturday and saw some familiar faces like an African Grey Parrot, Chinchillas, Blue-Tongued Skink, and a Ball Python. Here are some of the pictures I took.
This tiny baby blue tongue was extremely angry about being moved out of the driveway where he was waiting to be run over and offered some fruit
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I’m from Australia, these Cockatoos love stealing my passion fruits from the front of my house
I was visiting my family in Utah over the weekend and saw these boards in a life science museum that we visited and thought they were really cool to see.
Hi Maya, I’m back for more. I posted previously showing off some of the animals the wildlife center I work for had taken in. We do rehab black bears, but only cubs! We are licensed to rehab almost every animal native to northern California except mountain lions, deer/elk, and adult bears. So the bear picture I included in the first post was taken only a short time before our bears were released in spring of 2022. I included a link to a YouTube video that shows their journey to release. I wasn’t working there at the time but we might get more cubs this year. Thank you again for all the hard work you do with Alveus!
Hello everyone. I’m from the Moscow region of Russia. A few years ago, I became interested in gardening and in order to increase biodiversity, I made several birdhouses for great tits (sorry XD). They are the most common small birds here.
Now every spring the birds hatch chicks in them and I sometimes spy on them. Please ignore my awkward speech on the video, I was too excited to be silent.
Also, I made houses for predatory insects feeding on plant pests to attract them to the garden. The video shows that some of the holes have already been sealed by bees.
Inspired by MIK’s post last week, I wanted to show the masterpiece that was HANK cam.
May he rest in peace.
(Not that he’s dead, he just has a better sleep schedule now.)
Timelapsed over 3 hours, so every second of video is about 3 minutes of real time.
I took these photos at a Tropical Bird Park in the UK last year. Some of them may be familiar to Alveus Fans, but there was also a Kookaburra and a Golden Pheasant. Macaws are terrifying.
What is the best way to prevent avian flu? Getting emu-nized (or F10)
We have:
1. Australian
King-Parrot
2. Eastern Blue Tongue Lizard (although it’s actually a
skink)
3. Huntsman Spider (that I found in my car and safely
relocated to the bush)
4. Moth
5. Brushtail Possum (I think)
6.
Common Garden Skink
My mom is an animal psychologist who has worked with monkeys her whole career, but when I was about 2yo she had the opportunity to take a group of Cottontop Tamarins from a different animal sanctuary (due to overpopulation) in to her facility. These monkeys are not pets and my mom does not do any invasive studies, but lets them participate in studies about their memory and spacial reasoning (i.e. they play card games for cheerios whenever they want). Hearing about the new marmosets at Alveus inspired me to share my own experience growing up around monkeys that are ostensibly extinct in the wild. I’m excited to see more conservation education about monkeys especially in this community!
Welcome Maya and Chat to another installment of Birb NZ!
Kiwis are nocturnal birds, but some sanctuaries have them in special nocturnal enclosures where they are exposed to UV light, reversing their day-night cycles and allowing me to see them. I could not take pictures of them though since it would mess up the darkness.
However, I do have some facts about Kiwis; they can live for 60+ years (in animal sanctuaries), a female’s egg weighs 25% (if not more) of her own weight (which is the equivalent of giving birth to a 6-year-old child), females eat 3 times as much as usual during gestation, and they are the only bird with nostrils at the end of their beak.
I took my 35mm film camera to
the Oklahoma City Zoo, here are my favorite shots.
Hello Maya, yesterday during
Keeper talks with Kayla I went out to get my brothers scorpion some
crickets and about an hour later he still did not eat or attempt to
eat them and im not really certain why. Kayla stated that you dont
feed puppy or tortellini anything live but they are about two times
smaller than ours. I belive (although its not mine granted) that he
has molted fairly recently due to how shiny he is but just isnt
eating, not sure if he is just a bit stubborn or if i should be
worried. Any sufficient advice would help. Cheers!
Also tell Caleb im sorry about our rocky first interaction late night friday the 6th during enrichment.
Environmental Law Student
Hello Maya & Alveus 🙂
In honour of your new marmosets (who I am so excited to see on stream and get to know) I thought I would make a post about my visit to a primate sanctuary.
Last summer, I went to a monkey sanctuary and rescue centre in England near where I live.
They had a lot of information about their primates backgrounds and life stories before they were rescued. A lot had been rescued from places such as circuses, hollywood, photography studios (they were used as props), laboratories, the exotic pet trade, and more.
It was so nice to see them finally thrive and be happy.
I have attached photos of just some of the primates I saw!
I live in Sweden? is that what biographical means? like countries.
I made a post on this last week about me starting a animal sanctuary in a Minecraft server I play on and I would give a tour to the players and teach them on the animals with the information I got from Maya’s/Alveus streams (also some other sources but mainly the streams). I have now finished it and I have linked a video of a tour of it and sped up some parts for it to be not too long for chat :). I announced that I would give a tour to the players and teach them but no one showed up except for my brother *Sadge. but at least I got to teach him about the animals 🙂
I was out with some friends and we saw this bird in a cage
in front of a antique shop. (We were going to a nearby cafe) we were
kinda confused cuz I live in New Jersey and the weather has been rlly
cold lately so we walked into the antique shop and talked to the bird
owner who worked there to see why it was outside. I’m not much of a
bird expert, but I recognized the bird because my grandpa in Brazil
owns two of them. Anyway, the store owner said that these birds can
acclimate to the weather and how he did his research when we asked
him, but I was still hesitant. The whole situation was weird, so we
ended up leaving. Also here are my grandpas birds that I think are the
same species.
Hi Maya, and Happy New Year everyone! I had the privilege of spending two weeks in New Zealand with my family over the holidays and learning about the indigenous species, the vast majority of which are birds. New Zealand felt like a massive animal sanctuary, and I learned about animals! This will be the first installment in Birb NZ.
Now for the cool stuff, I got to see a South Island giant Moa, an extinct 9-foot-tall flightless bird that looks kinda like a giant emu.
These things are like Stompy’s giant cousins. The males would be able to reach up to 2.4 meters, while the females would be able to reach up to 3.6 meters. Behind me in this picture is a female.
I like to bring my camera with me on hikes and take pictures of any animals I see along the way, these are some of my favorites I’ve taken over the past year or two.
Blue Jay:
Eastern Carpenter Bee:
Eastern Comma Butterfly:
Yellow Rumped Warbler:
Painted Turtle:
For the nerds:
All these pictures were taken with a Canon T2i/550D and a Canon EFS 55-250mm lens. Cropped and auto-developed with Lightroom
I do photography and grab
nature shots whenever I can. From the animals on my back porch to when
I’m just around them. I’ve also started a new project where I
digitally draw over the photos trying to give the a more
impressionists feel. I’m also looking for a sanctuary around me to
donate some photography to to help out anyway I can. 
I’m currently studying Environmental Geoscience and Conservation at university, last September I went up to the Northern islands of Scotland to do field work. Whilst I was out there gathering water samples i came across this guy basking in the sun, thought it was pretty cool as I’ve not seen a wild snake before.
Recently I have been going to local nature preserves and looking for wildlife on the trails. A couple months ago hurricane Ian went through here and there are tons of trees that have been split in half or ripped out of the ground. The coolest thing I found are 2 gopher tortoises, the only gopher naturally found in Florida. Thank you for what you do you have been a huge inspiration for me.
A very friendly and tame cat was hanging around our house and refused to leave. He was following my brother around like a dog so we decided to look after him for the time being expecting him to go home soon. He never went home even when it got dark and we were forced to bring him inside and keep him since it was raining and everytime we left him alone outside he would meow and scratch at the door, so we brought him in and I fed him some of the chicken we were eating (he wasn’t very hungry) and he slept in my brothers bed with him. Later the next da
y we took him to the vet to see if he had a chip. he did, and the original owners were contacted and he was brought home shortly after.
Veterinarian specializing in ethology 🙂
saw these two and knew I needed them ❤️❤️❤️ any emu care tips?
Hello I took a pic of this cute little insect in Albuquerque NM
Here are some pics of a couple of Norwegian crows.
I watched the animal quest episode and it occurred to me that our crows look quite different. They are apparently whats called a Hooded Crow (Corvus corone cornix) a subspecies of the European carrion crow, where the American Crow is Corvus brachyrhynchos.
They look more floofy, I guess because of the cold.
I also found out while looking this up, that while crows look different in so many parts of the world, Ravens are all the same all over the northern hemisphere
I have been working with the environmental agency of my country since last October doing mainly community cleanups across the country, but I did attend a meeting with government employees/representatives to discuss environmental policies in the country and a kayaking environment discussing species richness in a local park.
my humble collection so far:
– valid volunteering license from a
local government program
– certificate of appreciation by the
environmental agency
the journey has been incredibly fun and fantastic, I hope to continue working with them for the foreseeable future and make a career out of this 🙂
PS:- all images taken by consent of the respective event administrators
ive always loved birds of prey, watching maya and alveus has been a massive motivation to get out there and be involved and educate myself further! thank you so much for your content and for all the work you do
i work at a bird of prey centre and we also have meerkats! i hope
you enjoy the pictures, they are my pride and joy
Hi Maya love the stream!!!
I’m a senior in highschool and in my environmental education class we
go on day trips to do interesting things all the time. this is about
our water quality testing unit where we search for bottom dwelling
invertebrates which we then count based on their tolerance to
pollution. our system is to wade around in local streams and kick up
rocks and let all the critters flow downstream into our nets.
overall it’s a wonderful time (if we get our water chemistry done before hand) and this has really ignited my love for water borne insects and is a very helpful way to visualize the health of local streams!
(also it’s nice being with my girlfriend, hi emily I love you)
i’ve been fascinated by the family of crows in my yard for about 3 years now. What started as sharing a few shelled peanuts with them fueled a new lifelong love of corvids.
We started with a pair of 3, and a year later laid 4 eggs, bringing us to now a family of 7 🙂
They are so fun to watch interact with eachother and learn about corvid behaviors. They love hanging upside down on one of the trees in my yard. Here’s a video of them doing it, it’s their favourite activity: https://streamable.com/6kcbgb
Their favourite snacks are peanuts and fresh salmon, they hate berries of any kind, and are easily confused by hazelnuts. They also love to chase the osprey for leftover fish.
I’ve done the experiments. The results are in. One only needs to frolick about after a butterfly for one minute and thirty seconds as people stare. It will then get tired and perch long enough for you to take a picture. Just remember that when you have a new camera you should reposition the zone of focus to the center after playing with it. For example, if it’s off to the bottom right, that might look a little bit funny, but you’ve never had a camera before so you might get really excited to see a butterfly and prance after it without second thought. Don’t get down on yourself. It gets hot out and you were probably just excited to finally get a picture of something that can fly.
Some photos from the Wildlife Sanctuary I volunteer at. The hospital at the sanctuary receives native intakes as well as ambassadors/display animals housed at the sanctuary to care for when they are sick/injured.
Me and one of my co-workers have become co-parents to a baby squirrel glider at my work. His name is Flynn Rider the Squirrel Glider. He was born on display at our sanctuary and we have been raising him to be an educational ambassador for our conservation in action show!
He is around 6 months old currently and he already has really strong crate training, stations on our hands and is working on his gliding distance/aim (he often lands on our heads 😂) and all in front of our show audiences.
He loves chin scratches and scratches under his arms too ❤️
Now he has moved into his big boy enclosure with his friend Bailey the yellow bellied glider and they are best buddies ❤️
My family owns a farm up in
north Georgia, where we have Goats, Rabbits, as well as a Great
Pyrenees livestock guardian. Over the years since we do not hunt our
land, the local deer have moved into our land to avoid hunting as well
as construction on the land surrounding ours. So we’ve found that all
the does have been having their fawns in our pasture because our dog
doesn’t bother the fawns and protects the area from predators. As time
passes the deer keep getting more and more comfortable with our house
as well as our barn so now almost everyday they graze with our
goats at dusk. And the picture is of one yearling that decided to
graze in our little barnyard one evening.
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This summer I undertook a project to do my part to help support my local pollinators.
I started with a wildflower mix and supplemented it with another that included milkweed. While waiting for everything to grow, I added a bird feeder and bath.
My new garden provides a more beautiful view from my home office window. Bruno (my dog) and I love observing all our new visitors.
A favorite of mine is a cardinal couple that always arrive together. I noticed the male picking out the best seeds for his lady. After looking it up, I found out this is called “courtship feeding.”
Other critters we’ve seen: butterfly’s, bees, bugs, hummingbirds,
chipmunks, squirrels, rabbits, and even a vole once. 
My family owns a farm up in
north Georgia, where we have Goats, Rabbits, as well as a Great
Pyrenees livestock guardian. Over the years since we do not hunt our
land, the local deer have moved into our land to avoid hunting as well
as construction on the land surrounding ours. So we’ve found that all
the does have been having their fawns in our pasture because our dog
doesn’t bother the fawns and protects the area from predators. As time
passes the deer keep getting more and more comfortable with our house
as well as our barn so now almost everyday they graze with our
goats at dusk. And the picture is of one yearling that decided to
graze in our little barnyard one evening.
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I dont know if it really fits here but after I saw Maya mention it I wanted to give a little perspecitve to people myself.
I was a heavy meat eater for most of my life (ate it almost everyday) and I loved it, but after I stopped living with my parents I myself never really go to buy meat, at least only on rare occasions, and I dont see myself ever going back. I still eat meat but now only maybe once a month or less and all I really want to say is that eating alot of meat is usually only a habit once you stop you wont miss it, very quickly, and I encourage every one to try it, even if just for a month, you will see its even better because then you really enjoy it when you eat a good steak etc.
Hi Maya! I love your streams, I’m an animal lover too. I volunteer at a llama farm in upstate NY where I also have my own llama (Bodhi). They are such sweet and intuitive animals and people love to come visit the farm to hang out with them. I am currently training my llama to be a therapy animal so we can travel to nursing homes and medical facilities once he’s certified. I’m an occupational therapist and I’ve brought many different clients to the farm to meet the llamas and work with them. If you’re ever in NY, I hope you stop by!
My aunt saw a mother and 4 kittens in her yard and she started feeding them. She eventually cought all the kittens in havahart cage, the only cat she hasn’t cought (yet) is the mother. My family took in one and a humane society took in two. My aunt currently still has one of the kittens but has recently found a home for it. Our kitten, Blair, is settling in great.
I'm a wildlife teacher and amature photographer in India.
I’ve always been interested in animals and especially wildlife so it was a natural decision for me to work towards becoming a wildlife vet. Part of that journey is getting experience in the field so I was happy to have been accepted to an internship after graduation and later hired as a wildlife technician in late summer. These are a few of the 4500+ animals the northern California wildlife rescue I work for has taken in this year. Education is so immensely important for the well-being of wildlife so I appreciate the work of Maya and Alveus for bringing awareness to these issues. Maya’s work on Twitch is also huge as it helps the younger generations get involved and excited about wildlife!
I found Maya’s streams and videos over the last year or
so and I’m so impressed with how far she’s come. Here’s some pictures
of bugs! The detail is incredible and I love them so much
<3
Proud of you Maya, keep doing great things!
Sorry it’s such a bad picture, this was at night. There was a lizard in the middle of the path at my college, so I spent like half an hour waiting for it to crawl onto leaves to very slowly move it over to the grass.
I started making a sanctuary in a Minecraft server I play on and I started by making a enclosure for a parrot and I am going to make more enclosures. when I am done I am hoping to invite players to come and give them a tour while also teaching them about the animals from the information i have gained from Maya’s streams. 🙂
I found this. It was in my pillow. No idea what this is.
I am a Biology student in the UK with a keen interest in researching birds, and was asked to join a researcher at my uni to assist her in some seabird monitoring at an Auk colony. We put GPS tags onto guillemots (also called Murre’s) and razorbills to track their dive depth and how far out from their colony they hunt. This needed to be researched as there are plans in build underwater machines a few km’s off the coast of north Wales, and we needed to know how and if these plans will affect diving seabirds hunting for food. We also stopped at an osprey centre where we saw a wild osprey pair feeding their young! (This was in the summer where there weren’t avian flu regulations yet)
Caught invasive Carp fish that have infested a creek running through my friends property over a weekend, we tried grilling and eating them but they tasted gross , unless we somehow overpower the taste lol, so the rest get to run free in the creek.
Since they were introduced about a 100 years ago, Carp have become the most dominant large-bodied fish in the Murray-Darling Basin, the largest River Systems in Australia ,affecting and eradicating many Native fish species and water quality in large rivers
(please excuse the fit it was 2°C)
Im trying to go into college for Photography and submitted these photos as a part of my portfolio. Wish me luck.
Mix of a few things, but this summer I was a park ranger at a national forest in Utah (I’m from East Coast so very big for me) and loved my time talking to the public and getting to talk to them about safely and responsibly recreating 🙂 I’m a junior in college studying environmental studies and did some cool stuff in my classes this fall like restoring a plot at our off campus environmental center (first pic is before, with lots of invasive grasses, second pic is with them removed and natives planted)
ps thank you the maya and the whole team for all you do with your content and Alveus, it has made me even more passionate about the env. and teaching others about it 🙂
(What these^?)
I’m the Programming and Community Engagement
Coordinator at a nonprofit called the Maymont Foundation in Richmond,
VA. Not only is Maymont a home some non-releasable Virginia native
wildlife, we also are a historic site, gardens, arboretum, farm and
environmental/historical education center! I work in the Education
department, specializing on the environmental education side of
programming.
Getting to teach the public and school kids about the importance of native wildlife is so rewarding, and I love the education ambassadors I work with! I love following Alveus to see your animals and I appreciate the work you do to spread the word on the importance of conservation and enviro ed
There was another post on here with a picture of a dagger moth caterpillar and it reminded me of the few I’ve seen around my backyard. I took a picture last fall because I was surprised it was still crawling around outside since it was so cold already (I live in WY and fall is typically winter temperatures) and wanted to know if they were harmful to pets. Turns out they can sting people/animals even if it’s just from a stray hair that fell off. Haven’t seen too many around but I see the adult moths all the time and they love to scare me by flying into my house and hiding in cracks until I walk by. I like the caterpillar stage better.
Hi Maya,
Rose ringed or Ring necked parakeets are native to asia but due to the pet trade over at least a hundred years some escapees have made wild populations within the UK.
I live in Glasgow, Scotland where our wild population is considered to be the most northerly wild parrots in the world. They live in city parks and green spaces in the city, not in the countryside.
Although they are invasive they are cool to see in the garden as we obviously are not used to exotic birds in Scotland.
Sorry for poor quality photos as I used my phone through the lens of binoculars to get these.
Here’s a picture of the bird my grandparents recovered (I wish I knew how they found him, but I don’t) his name is Jake 🙂
I live in NYC so there isn’t much of anything to really show. I wanted to post something because your streams have given me a whole new perspective on animals, nature, and conservation as a whole! Thank you for all the efforts and education you provide! We need more people who are passionate about making the world a better place not only for humans but for the animals as well! Thanks again Maya!
Hi, so last summer i went hiking with a couple of my friends in Belgium! While entering a small village, we found a small birb in the grass underneath a large tree. The bird wasen’t able to move besides turn its little head to follow our finger, so we decided to take it with us, carrying him in a straw hat. (sadly no photo) While carrying him with us, wondering what we should do, we happened to pass a lady on the street, she asked what we were carrying and we showed her.
Turns out she was an ornithologist, who had a friend who was able to rescue the bird, turns out it had a broken wing! The only person we passed happened to be an ornithologist who could help. Lucky little bird. ~Quintart
So a couple of years ago a
bunch of ladies in my apartment complex started taking care of a cat
and he became the apartment cat, and everyone took turns taking care
of the cat and he even had a lil box to sleep in in the security
office, and since then we’ve taken in so many stray cats and gotten
them neutered or spayed and gotten them their vaccines and keep their
health on track. Every month each apartment puts in some money to pay
for the food and other expenses and here’s some pictures of them! 
I’m lucky to have a nature trail about 5 minutes from my home in metro Detroit. I never spent time there until recently and now I walk my dog there 2-3 times everyday. I’ve really been enjoying seeing all the wildlife you wouldn’t expect to see in my area and my dog loves it too. So far I’ve seen deer, turkeys, coyote, hawks, bats, owls, raccoons, opossums, turtles, frogs, rabbits and plenty of insects. My goal this year is to volunteer to help however I can. I would love to help put up more bat houses. Thank you for inspiring me to pay more attention to and appreciate the natural world around me.
Been into taking pictures of local birds and seen a lot of cool ones especially at lowes where I worked over the summer. Always had an interest but watching the channel helped me learn how cool local animals can really be. Gonna try and label them all but will likely mess up.
Blue guy in the featured image is an indigo bunting and also one of the main reasons i got into taking pictures of birds
pigeon
mourning dove and house sparrow
catbird
house finch
carmorants
seagull
or some tern/gull
mourning dove
great horned owl
I went on a family vacation in the Florida Keys and dragged my family away from the beach to 2 different animal locations. The turtle hospital is the first and largest rehabilitate and release sea turtle hospital in America. We got to see a bunch of different sea turtles and even watched one get released. I also went to the Dolphin Research Center which is where Flipper was filmed, and they have published a ton of papers on dolphin research. They had a demonstration with their smartest dolphin who was the first ever non-human animal to mimic different species and could mimic other dolphins while blindfolded. It was pretty cool!
Hello from Manchester uk 😊
A few years ago on my way home from school I saw a mama
hedgehog with her 3 babies out in pure daylight because they are
nocturnal animals and shouldn’t be out in the day we called our local
hedgehog rescue and they came to pick them up, they said the hedgehogs
probably wouldn’t have survived if we hadn’t found them it felt
amazing to have a positive impact on their lives and since then I
always try to connect with the nature around me and help out when I
can including making friends with the local geese the one pictured I
called Gavin and I would die for him
Horseback Archery!
With so many different variations, archery is an amazing art. The photos up top are from me 3 years ago in a small show! I’m no pro, and still have a lot to learn 🙂
Though it isn’t as popular in America, competitions and festivals are frequently held in places such as Poland, Hungary, Qatar, Mongolia, and Japan! It is a popular activity for retired race horses, as if often involves just a straight path, so some competitions are held throughout mile-long trails with targets scattered about!
Here’s a short Mongolian Horseback Archery Clip
Just wanted to spread some horseback archery love. Thanks and Happy Holidays everyone!
Will
So today I decided to take my nephews to the beach to pick up some litter and teach them the importance of keeping the environment clean and reasons why littering is bad and how it can effect wildlife!
I answered questions through the period some of which came from my 6 year old Nephew “Am I helping to clean up the environment?” and “Why do people even litter?” as well as some other comments “People who litter are STUPID!”
Plenty of passers-by were stopping to talk to us and thank us for what we were doing, which made us doing it even more fun.
Afterwards they were so proud of themselves and went home and told all their friends, and our relatives about the amazing job they did!
Back in highschool we used to have a conservation club that would set up projects and trips related to threatened species, habitat restoration, etc. These are a few pictures from a week long trip to Broome in Western Australia to tag and measure nesting flatback sea turtles with some researchers back in 2018. This was definitely one of school’s main highlights
It is difficult to describe to you how much manure I had to wade through to take these pictures. It was a ton of manure. Not like a lot of manure. Like literally a ton. I still have traumatic nightmares from the experience. I felt like Andy Dufresne at the end of The Shawshank Redemption. I would definitely do it again, though. I mean look at these mushrooms. Frankly, they are the most perfect mushrooms I have ever seen. I also believe that as Niko, but especially as Frank. I hope the image quality is good. I took these with my phone.
i was watching maya daily and heard that she is doing these show and tells and literally gave an example of someone saying “i saw this red tailed hawk in my backyard the other day” and it just so happens that i saw this red tailed hawk the other day! lol…thank you to maya for all the education and efforts you do to make this world a better place <3 and in case this gets shown on stream…hi chat!
I’ve been growing my hair for years now (I can’t remember the last time I got it cut honestly…) and I figured it was time to get a haircut since my hair was almost reaching my knees. I searched for a place that I could donate my hair to that would be able to use it for something good and I discovered an organization called The Hum Sum. I read into what they do, and they take things like pet fur, wool and hair, and they create felted mats that soak up oil.
Bonus pictures of my cats :^) Biscuit and Ivy
I was originally going to school for cyber security and after one year of that I realized it sucked and I hated it. I just got finished with my first semester of my biology degree and got a 98% in the first biology class(I wont comment on the pre-calc class though) and have been loving it. I already have an opportunity for an animal care internship at my local family run zoo thanks to my Aunt putting in a good word for me.
Here are the promised red panda pictures from the zoo (I’m feeding
it a grape on a stick)
We got a black vulture baby just 24 hours after it hatched. He was the ugliest bird you’ve ever seen but we all loved him to death. Because he was so young when we got him he had a lot of contact with people so he got used to us. Eventually he got big enough to be moved to an outside pen and when we would bring him his food he would hop over to us. We were supposed to limit contact with the animals as much as possible of course but I think everyone gave a little leeway with him. I often knelt down and he would put his head in my hand and let me scratch him on the neck and he was just very sweet. We did release him and last I heard he is doing well. I miss him but I’m happy he’s for him
Howdy,
As a day one Pokemon Go player I still walk around sometimes. Heres some cool stuff ive cought on my Oldge phone recently. Big birds and an albino squirrel. But yeah i really enjoy watching keeping streams and learning new stuff all the time. Glad i found yah in the plethora of gaming channels!
I would regularly walk this pond trail in the summer and thanks to Maya & Alveus, I’ve become more aware and excited of nature!! Maybe not so much the bugs… but this caterpillar was definitely really cool looking… but I also fear them.
Lots of cool birds I’ve never seen before visit this location and I wish I had a better camera to capture the details at a far distance 🙁
Over the quarantine I consumed a lot of Maya so now I love to bird watch and any little bird gets me excited to take a pic of. I hope to one day be able to identify them but I still get excited when I can identify something as simple as a dove 🙂
Hey Maya!
I’m a Master’s student and forest ecologist interested in nutrient cycling. Unfortunately, a lot of forest health and nutrient cycling issues don’t get a lot of attention. Although my main goal is to pursue research, you’ve inspired me to take more interest in public outreach. I’ll be taking a seminar on presenting research to the public next semester!
I thought it would be fun to share some photos I’ve taken while doing fieldwork over the years! 🙂
*Black-throated blue warblers, common loon, red-breasted merganser family, maple gall mites, tiger swallowtail, American toad, butt mushroom, chipmunk friend, big quartz, wood frog, beaver action, coyote tracks
Don’t have a lot to show, so I just wanted to say thank you for what you do, and the real impact that it has. I only started watching your streams earlier this year, but they’ve already played a big part in getting me out of a bad headspace that I’ve been in for a while, and reinvigorated my interest to seek further education in animal care/volunteerships at my local zoos. I’ve also been going on walks & taking photos of the local wildlife I spot, like the Darter in the header (which I contacted wildlife rescue about due to it’s beak injury). Have been visiting more ZAA (Australia’s version of AZA) accredited local zoos & taking photos there, too.
Always been a proper crunchy kid right. proper outdoorsy innit. always loved nature and the energy of the ancient woods we got in britian.
Always been taking photos but most of the time never knew what of to the full extent, the stream (and maya) informed me more about identification. so i started researching the stuff i was taking photos of . proper inspirational innit bruv
particularly love fungi and spiders tbh
(help for id of white spider on flower)
featured a few photos, not my best but most are stuck on a hardrive i cant access right now, sadge
(Was also a proper nerd for raptors when i was young however my local BoP center closed down after C-19 ( ICBP – my heaven on earth ))
I got my first job this last week at the San Diego Zoo!! I’m so excited to start, and even tho I won’t be working with the animals I’m excited to see them!
Hi Maya! I recently started college and I’m studying large ruminant veterinary science, specializing in ethology (behavior)! These are some pictures from some animals I have got to observe/work on, just wanted to say how much you’ve inspired me and I take a lot of notes for when I (hopefully) start my own sanctuary 🙂
The multicolored grasshopper is a rare one, have only seen 2 other photos of it, not entirely sure what it is exactly, and the other one was just a meaty one. I work as a land engineer so I see plenty of wildlife.
video is a few years old, but i used to live in a basement that had window recessed holes and one time a frog got trapped so i had to catch him and put him outside.
I saved a bird too one time, have to edit the video so ill post that for next show and tell
I wanted to do something to help out some animals in need so I made blankets for my local animal shelter. They said the idea behind the blankets is to make the adoption transition less stressful because they have something familiar. When I adopted one of my rabbits she came with a blanket and she still loves it so I really hope it helps the kitties. And you can’t really tell, but they are very festive. Also, my other bunny wanted to be in the picture 🙂
About a week ago I woke up to
my siblings yelling about how one of our chickens was dead. What I
didn’t expect to see was a hawk actively eating one.
(video
below)
A few days pass, and I’m sitting at my desk when I hear our
rooster freaking out. Turns out, the hawk came back again.
I go
outside, expecting to see another dead body, when I see a trail of
blood. I follow it too see one of my hens hiding under a table with a
bloody eye. She’s fine now, but she’s blind in one eye and separated
from the flock.
I’m not doing anything about the hawk, but I’m keeping the hens cooped up for the next few days.
Something about Connor during subathon inspired me to start walking my dog again. I had mostly stopped after weirdly breaking my foot last year ( she tripped me on the stairs lol ). This fall we’ve been walking this local trail twice a week, seeing lots of squirrels, geese, some birds, and even a hawk. In the spring I’m planning on visiting some state parks with her when it warms up 🙂
P.S. I made way too many gifts this year so I sent some christmas stuff for everyone a bit late for the PO box, feel free to open it whenever 🙂
After learning on Animal Quest how badly the beef industry in Brazil is decimating the amazon and the industry’s flow-on effects to climate change, I decided to cut my beef intake down dramatically. Currently it’s to the point where I think I’ve only eaten it once in the last 4 months? (down from around 3-4 times a week!)
I’ve also worked at least 1-2 vegetarian meals into my diet weekly and hopefully when I get a bit better at cooking without meat, that number will go up in the future. Your Meal Prep Mondays are helping a tonne with recipe inspiration. Hooray!
Here’s my okonomiyaki from last night, with my banger homemade Tonkatsu sauce
omnomnom
After learning about the decline in insect populations, I have been converting my garden into a more native one where insects can thrive. Here are some pictures of insects I’ve taken over the past few years!
I spotted this cool guy on a tree at my university while walking and I couldn’t identify him.
This semester I volunteered with the Bureau of Land Management on a research project that uses goats for maintenance of state/national parks. They help with reducing brush to keep wildfire risk down. They also promote safer biomass ratios which helps with keeping invasive plant species in check so that native plants can still thrive. I mainly helped with collecting biomass samples in the field but I did get to hang out with the goats a few times.
ps. if you look at the oak in the back of the pic you can see a goat standing to get the leaves!
Oak leaves are one of their favorite snacks, the video I took was a branch leaves I broke off to let the goat eat
Hi my name is lanie, you have inspired me in the past year, I’ve never known what I wanna do in life and I’ve never been confident in my future. But seeing you and the stuff that you do inspired me, the first time I saw what you I immediately knew it was something I wanted to get into. I’m going to go to college for a bachelors in biology, and I want to be an animal care specialist. Sometime soon I’m also volunteering at a near by animal science center, thank you for everything you have done for my life, I’m finally happy knowing that I’ll be happy doing what I feel I’m truly meant to do. Thank you for the impact you’ve made on me, and our environment. <3
Hello!
I’ve been working as a farm-hand on the livestock team of a small father farm operation for eight years since I was thirteen (started as a wee volunteer). A father farm is essentially an operation that in our case, takes in farming apprentices yearly to work and learn vegetable and livestock practices. The apprentices spend a year to work every season to practice and learn things like holistic management and sustainable agriculture.
Baby Boo, born 12/10/22
Thank you Alveus for making this blog! Love seeing the posts, and sharing cute photos 🙂
Will share Horseback Archery stuff next time!
~Will
I live in Sweden? is that what biographical means? like countries.
I was cycling home from work and then there was a birb and it was limping. I decided to take it in to the vet and they said it had fractured it leg and they would just need to do surgery for support while it heals and it would be fine in a few weeks. +1 birb saved.
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I got an incredible opportunity to be a guinea pig intern for my schools field station in Central Texas. Under my professors permits I was trained to mist net and band birds. I made sure to snag a few pictures.
Painted Bunting 
First Spring Summer Tanager
Ash-throated Flycatcher 
Black-throated Sparrow
Purple Martins with mouths full
First year Painted Bunting
Bonus because its my favorite animal…
The Nine-Banded Armadillo!
Hello!
I’m working on a
degree in Wildlife sciences specializing in Ecology. I used to be
studying GIS/Environmental science. After finding your stream and
watching you develop Alveus, with some research, I discovered my
lifelong passion within conservation sciences, which I didn’t even
know could become a field.
I currently have an Internship at a
state park and finished one at Edith. L. Moore Nature sanctuary, which
I recommend checking out if you’re ever in the Houston area. It’s a
fascinating site, nestled into the middle of Houston, with its unique
ecosystem that you wouldn’t expect to be there.
Here are a few
pictures I’ve taken over the year:
I live on the edge of town so I get a ton of deer in my yard everyday, but it is super rare to see a male. So I took a picture!
I graduated this past May from TTU with a Natural Resource MGMT degree, concentrated in Wildlife Biology. My first job post college is on a beautiful privately owned ranch in North-Central Texas, roughly 20,000 acres. The owners are the only ones who use the ranch besides the handful of biologists and cowboys that live and work here. The focus lies mostly on white-tailed deer, but the ranch is managed for Rio Grande wild turkey and northern bobwhites. We conduct controlled burns, ride in helicopters to conduct population surveys, and hunt to cull animals and maintain a healthy carrying capacity to maximize health of all native animals on the ranch. Rattlesnakes are a cool bonus at this job.
Took a hands-on herpetology course in 2017 and can not recommend it or similar courses enough. Seeing/holding hellbenders (the large dark salamander pictured) and testing them for chytrid was such an awesome experience.
Over the summer I was inspired by Alveus and Maya’s content to take my education abroad and study field ecology and conservation of wildlife in the Limpopo Province of South Africa. I had a much greater understanding and appreciation of all of the animals we studied and the roles that they have in their ecosystem thanks to the stream.
Hayo!
While I was always going to be doing something with animals in my life (hence why I’m studying Wildlife Management), the passion for education is something which I’ve developed in recent years, partly because of Maya and the incredible things she has been doing. Recently I had an interview for the internship I’ve been dreaming about and I got in! I’m going to be working as an educator in a big zoo. The main thing I’m going to be working on is creating an event highlighting local conservation orgs and wildlife. So excited!
I’m going to be starting in February and be there fulltime for about 5 months, so I’ll keep you all up to date on the cool stuff I’ll come across and be working on!
In March 2021, I visited my state’s wildlife center. Despite living my entire life within a 2-hour drive, I had never been before. Maya’s and Alveus streams such as the Conservation Cast, Animal Quest, and keeping streams at Alveus gave me a much better appreciation for the animals at the facility and the time and effort that must go into operating the facility and caring for the animals. Stream also helped me have a stronger understanding of the information I read about on each of the animals as I toured the facility. I felt like I left having learned much more about my state’s local wildlife than I would have before I was an Alveus viewer.
Bonus Xmas pics of my dogs, Sadie and Seneca. 🙂
Took me and my girlfriend to the Camden Aquarium for her birthday, ended up seeing some really cool fish and teaching her some wicked facts I learned from stream ! (ft. an eel, a sneaky lil guy, and tico’s cousin)
Hi I just wanted to take the opportunity to thank maya and alveus for allowing me to realise my passion wild life and sea birds.
After watching how passionate maya is I decided to volunteer at SANNCOB, a sea bird rehabilitation center.
At the center I have been lucky enough to work closely with all types of sea birds including cape Gannetts, Cape Gulls, Pelicans, Cormorant and African Penguins.
As SANCCOBS main goal is to capture sick birds and release them into the wild. It has been very rewarding to follow birds through this process, toward their release.
Sorry for the some what long explanation, I have become very invested in this topic.
But once again thank alveus 🙂
Started noticing and paying attention to more wildlife around me since I started watching Maya. Especially birds and how they move. These are just a couple around where I work in Florida. Can’t wait to share more when I get more pictures. Maya made me appreciate insects and other wildlife to better understand how they interact with each other.
I’m used to seeing the occasional bat near my house but because of Maya, I started to appreciate the role they have in the forests near me and I’ve begun to support the local wildlife and bat sanctuary.
Took these pictures when I went on a hike. They’re fruit bats, so they’re big seed dispersers and pollinators. Most of them are endemic to my country but sadly, some are classified as endangered due to habitat loss and poaching, namely the Giant Golden-Crowned Flying Fox.
I’ve been spending the last several months outside. Lived in the woods for 2 months and learned a lot. Currently my career is based in rock climbing and related outdoor education. At the moment I have been trying to find some ways to educate people on how to better treat our vertical environments while climbing. Bonus pics of the group I was leading hiking through the woods and a squirrel friend.
Meet Layla my pitty rescue! Layla is around 8 years old
now and we got her from a SPCA (it ended up burning down a few years
ago) the people that work there told us that her mother was shot in
the face right in front of her puppies, and Layla was the only one to
survive unharmed. And it’s been the greatest honour to have this
beautiful dog. She suffers with PTSD and extreme anxiety because of
the gunshot. She fears rain and loud sounds. Pitbulls are the sweetest
animals, and I will not take any slander. No Animal should not be
discriminated against because of the owners.
Original Post:
I found Maya’s stream from Pokimane and have since loved the content. I recently started volunteering as an education volunteer at a local zoo in my area that educates people about conserving the native wildlife.
https://www.alveussanctuary.org/i-started-volunteering-because-of-maya/
Milton the angry old skunk:
Tuck the barn owl:
Random frog who I had to save from being grabbed by children:
Maya genuinely inspires me a lot, I find myself using animal quest facts when educating all the time. 🙂
Found this big little guy in one of my friend’s backyard shack. He was found as my friend was showing off his new place at a party so a few of us walked into this wandering spiders hunting ground at the same time. My friend was fearful finding this spidey in his kids play area. Being that it is an outdoor play area and him thinking this was a wolf spider that is definitely understandable. I’m not an expert but I can identify most of the commonly confused as harmful species in my local area and encourage relocation as we were able to do with this after explaining it was a relatively harmless Dark Fishing Spider.
I didn’t think I had anything to share on here, but I remembered that we saw some sea lions up close on my dive the other day. Would you freak out or nah?
Pretty sick to see ocean life up close in their own environment; not just the seals but all the stuff you get to see down there. Saw a blacktip shark, buncha manta rays, and giant schools of fish in Mexico the other month, but I don’t have the pictures on hand. Anyways, I recommend y’all to go diving if feasible, its beautiful.
Found this big little guy in one of my friend’s backyard shack. He was found as my friend was showing off his new place at a party so a few of us walked into this wandering spiders hunting ground at the same time. My friend was fearful finding this spidey in his kids play area. Being that it is an outdoor play area and him thinking this was a wolf spider that is definitely understandable. I’m not an expert but I can identify most of the commonly confused as harmful species in my local area and encourage relocation as we were able to do with this after explaining it was a relatively harmless Dark Fishing Spider.
I didn’t think I had anything to share on here, but I remembered that we saw some sea lions up close on my dive the other day. Would you freak out or nah?
Pretty sick to see ocean life up close in their own environment; not just the seals but all the stuff you get to see down there. Saw a blacktip shark, buncha manta rays, and giant schools of fish in Mexico the other month, but I don’t have the pictures on hand. Anyways, I recommend y’all to go diving if feasible, its beautiful.
When I lived in rural Maine, there were a lot of insects that invited themselves in the house. These unexpected visits got me interested in entomology. I spent well over an hour taking pictures of this wasp and hope it interests others in learning about insects. But it’s ok if you’ll never like insects.
I work in zoo education and volunteer at a wildlife rehab center so
here’s some cute babies 
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Maya’s stream and the community have truly given me a greater appreciation of the importance each species has in maintaining a healthy ecosystem. In the past, I might have been annoyed that a snail was eating my green onions but now, I find it cute and I let them help break down the organic matter in my garden.
Bonus pictures of a Blue heron that loves the pond behind my apartment and a bad video of an American Beaver I found munchin on stuff.
Wildlife Rehab Center I work for burned down earlier this week. We lost all of the animals inside, both education animals and patients. Just wanted to share some pictures of a few of them.
Nova (on the glove) and Cosmo are non-releasable Barn Owl ambassadors. Training is important for mental stimulation and also to reduce stress by training them to voluntarily do things like weigh themselves, go into carriers for transport, go on glove, etc. Nova has perched on glove before, but this is the first time she perched on glove for me. 🙂
Some of the best memories I had was studying Environmental science and Ecology back in 2012, I wish I had taken more photos back then as it was such a practical hands on course. I now work in a Microbiology Lab and Alveus has reminded me how much I loved learning and working in Environmental conservation and remediation and is making me consider persuing that passion, again I wish I had taken more photos from those days
Inspired by Meal prep streams, I started eating vegetarian and trying new things. Something that stood out to me about meal prep streams was how it gave me a different perspective on food compared to what I was used to. She was just making good food and the fact that almost none of it had meat in it was more of an afterthought, and it made me realize that putting meat in every meal is just a habit, you don’t need that to make good food.
After trying it for a while I realized its very easy to not eat meat. I’ve been doing it as a challenge to myself, so far I haven’t eaten meat in about 75 days, I don’t expect it to last forever, but its good to have tried it.
Zucchini is my new favorite!
By letting your cat roam free, you are
contributing to the destruction of local
environments and the native community of
wildlife. It sounds harsh but, cats have caused local extinctions of species, exterminated species endemic to islands, and have become an issue to a variety of ecosystems. It’s estimated that outdoor cats kill about 1.3–4.0 billion birds and 6.3–22.3 billion mammals annually in the US alone.
But as much as outdoor cats threaten biodiversity and the health of ecosystems, they also act as a vector for diseases which can pass on to humans.
The picture is a baby hare my cat got a hold of and i thought it was a good example as to why you want to keep your cat inside.
I’ve been finding these larva in my horse dung pit every summer but I’ve never figured out what they are/what they become after they complete their metamorphosis. Anyone have a clue?
Bonus pic of my sisters dog who wanted to eat it.
I found Maya’s stream from Pokimane and have since loved the content. I recently started volunteering as an education volunteer at a local zoo in my area that educates people about conserving the native wildlife.
I am officially a Certified Zookeeper Assistant, Graduated in early October 2022. Hoping in early spring to go and volunteer at either an animal sanctuary or at a wildlife rehabilitation centre in Canada. (Maya inspired me to finally get into the animal industry).
Also my cousin and I found a Fox den with some Kits sitting just outside of the hole (we were quite far from it so video is a little blurry).
There was a beehive in my bedroom wall last summer. At first I thought I caught it early and that it wasn’t a big deal but then I put my ear up to the wall and could hear them buzzing. The picture and videos were taken when local beekeepers came to relocate the bees and it was very cool.
For the past view weekends I’ve been walking a lot and decided to share some of the animals I met on here (check out the #nature channel on Mayacord, really cool people there).
A lot of horsies
Small and big Winnies
And a bunch more 🙂 . Go outside people, it’s very enjoyable!
Since the animal quest with Oliver and Nugget, I’ve always looked for the Certified Humane label on any meat, dairy, eggs, or poultry that I buy at the grocery store. 🙂
Watched these guys most of the summer. They lived around my favorite fishing spot and every time I was out they’d be swimming around. Usually they didn’t swim in front of me, but this one time they were being rude.
We have Muskellunge in the river system, but they didn’t seem to get any of the ducklings. All five were there until they all disappeared mid-summer towards the fall so I’m assuming they migrated. I’m in Eastern Canada.
While Deep Cleaning the basement, which hasn’t been used in years, I found this little guy. Pre-Alveus, I would have smashed its face in. Post-Alveus, I caught and released it. Thanks for changing how I look at creatures.
Cats are often brought up in conservation talks, so I wanna share my story. Pictured above are three cats I had spayed about 3 years ago. I noticed them – and their kittens – one day near a train station when commuting to work, and – after gaining their trust with food – I trapped them one by one and took them to the nearby vet to have them spayed. This way no new kittens are born outside anymore, and the impact on birds has been brought to a minimum (I still provide daily feedings). Trap-Neuter-Return efforts – next to being a responsible caretaker- are the best and most humane way to reduce cat overpopulation, and they help both cats and wildlife. I wish more people would realize that.
Calibirbs on ig
Took this a few days ago @ a lake.
Scaly-breasted Munias are native to southern Asia and are known as the Spice Finch / Nutmeg Finch in the exotic pet trade. After escaping the pet trade they have been able to establish populations in several parts of the world including Australia, Puerto Rico, California, Texas and Flordia. There are no plumage differences between the males and females.
Hi, I currently live in Quebec Canada. Our wildlife is the normal rabbits and squirrels, and one morning to my surprise there was these (believed to be female) turkeys that went door to door for hours. It’s illegal to hunt them unless they are in certain areas and with out permit so these ladies get to roam free and eat from our neighbours apple tree without worry. Because of this, I learned that they can smell extremely well and that’s how they found the tree! It’s been a few weeks since then and they are still in the neighborhood!
Testing the submission process… This picture was taken by me a few years ago on my way home from work. It’s a bunch of turkey vultures on a barn, I’ve never seen that many before and just had to stop. It was really creepy, also it was almost halloween so it just felt weird! Not sure if photo is showing up small but here’s IMGUR for full size.
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Hi Maya I’m a Zoology teacher and amature wildlife
photographer in an Agriculture University in India. I teach students
about conservation and sustainable agriculture. Here are some pictures
I’ve clicked of my local wildlife and lastly I just really wanna thank
you for all you do for conservation. It gives me so much hope that the
younger generation is interested in learning about wildlife. 
